It was after that sound that Xu Taiping's consciousness sank completely into chaos.
Only the Buddhist chanting, recited over and over, startled him awake from that chaos.
"Om shuri shuri maha shuri shushuri svaha."
"Om svabhava shuddha sarva dharma svabhava shuddho ham."
"Namo samanta buddhanam om dhuru dhuru dhivi svaha."
"Om gagana sambhava vajra hoh."
Amid those repeated Buddhist chants, Xu Taiping's consciousness gradually cleared.
That old monk didn't even give me a warning...
He rubbed the space between his brows and opened his eyes.
Looking up, he happened to see a huge Buddha statue with an imposing countenance gazing down at him.
"So you're the one enshrined in this Vairocana Zen Temple, old monk. No wonder you knew so much."
As he looked at the familiar Buddha statue before him, understanding dawned in Xu Taiping's heart.
Then he turned and swept his gaze around, discovering that he was in an empty Buddhist hall.
Beneath his feet, the radiance of runes was fading little by little.
Clearly, this should be one of the Teleportation Array's five exits: Vairocana Zen Temple in the Cloud Emergence Kingdom.
The Buddhist chanting he had just heard came from the rows of monks sitting cross-legged and reciting scriptures at the entrance to the Main Hall.
"Since I've already been sent here, and the Teleportation Token has been destroyed, I can only take things one step at a time."
Xu Taiping spoke with some helplessness.
As he said this, he raised his left wrist and discovered a bracelet on it that had not been there before.
There were only five Buddhist Prayer Beads on the bracelet, and each bead was engraved with the character "Xu."
"Could these be the five lives the old monk gave me?"
Xu Taiping was somewhat doubtful.
"Taiping, what just happened? Why